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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Pat Summitt

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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Attitude Choice Negative Positive Thinking Yourself
I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.
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Morning Myself Thinking Wake Up
I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our team can improve.
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Better Improvement Ourselves Team Thinking
I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
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Champion Different Face Myself National Sports Time Win
I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.
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Athlete Love Myself Teaching Work
When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’
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Childhood Farm Grow Hard Work Yourself
My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
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Chance Greatness Life Parents Stand Time Win Yourself
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
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Born Character Face Natural Share Team Work
I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.
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Myself Recruit Thinking
I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.
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Adversity Fight Myself Player Thinking
She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Care Player Teaching Yourself
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
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Champion Game Offense Ticket Win
In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
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Absence Care Negative People Yourself
Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
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Accountability Admit Improvement Mistake Wrong Yourself
Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
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Class Excitement Games Myself People Practice
Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
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Belief Success Yourself

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

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